I was recently reading but did not finish The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham. I picked it up because I think it’s an important story to tell and I liked how the author switched from story to modern-day facts about migration. However, I had to stop reading it because it described – trigger warning- SA,>! specifically a description of a woman being raped. !<
It didn’t describe it in detail, it was really only one short sentence, but I knew what happened and I could visualize it. Worse still, is I knew this happened to someone in real life, that this was a true story and that it continues to happen in the world.
I was upset the rest of the night and I went into Goodreads, Storygraph etc. looking for trigger warnings everywhere and I found nothing. I think Storygraph especially, is very good at letting us know when there is certain content in a book. It also has a feature that tells you when a book contains material you specified as not wanting to read, I love that. I think for this specific book maybe there isn’t enough user data entered so that I would’ve seen the trigger warnings.
Then I got to thinking, the books themselves (in a corner of an inner page or something) should have trigger warnings to help readers. I wish they did.
by Good-Win4068